Zhao Lin was so excited because he had realized something: the Pipa Catfish's powerful self-healing ability would be a massive boon to his cultivation!
Cultivating the Dao wasn't something that could be accomplished through "hard work" alone.
The notion that you could achieve better results than others by simply cultivating for four sessions a day—or even longer—when they only cultivated for one, was completely unfounded.
Just like with scholarly pursuits or martial arts practice, cultivation was subject to the law of diminishing returns. The most diligent person wasn't necessarily the one who came out on top.
Seven-tenths effort might yield seven-tenths reward, but with nine-tenths effort, you'd be lucky to get seven and a half.
That was one reason. There was another, more crucial one: the meridians and qi apertures had a limited capacity. Cultivators just starting on their path could only practice for a single session each day at most.
